Category: Work Placements and Experience

Work placements and internships are fantastic ways to break into the motorsport industry early on in your career and should be a key part of your focus. These posts discuss how to find opportunities, prepare yourself and make the most of them.

As regular readers of my blog will know, I spend much of my energy convincing people that the best way of getting a job in Formula 1 is to look as far away from the F1 teams as you possibly can. It might sound counterintuitive but this is exactly the point. The further you can […]

Although the focus of this website is on engineering and mechanical roles, I know that a lot of my readers aim to work in other roles within the sport. Marketing is one of the most popular of those and this week a great opportunity for marketing graduates has arisen at Williams F1. This role is […]

Toro Rosso have become the latest team to release details of their 2016 student placement scheme and there are several places up for grabs. Toro Rosso are very much a multi-national team with the factory being based in Italy, the owners being from Austria and the wind tunnel and aerodynamicists being based in the United […]

When it comes to work experience, much of the focus of this blog is concentrated around university students as this is where the majority of work placements in motorsport are targeted. However, as we saw with my recent post about NatSKA cooperating with Force India F1 to provide one of their students with a placement, […]

Working with an F1 team during your university or college course is a golden opportunity for anyone wanting to work in motorsport. The experience you get and the industry contacts that you develop can set you on your way to a long term and successful career in this sport. What if you could work with […]

Formula 1 is all about competition. Life is all about competition. As we all know, opportunities in F1 are limited and there are more of you out there than there are vacancies on the grid. Winning is all about being more inventive, being more determined and finding opportunity where others fail to spot it. The […]

This weekend see one of the highlights of the British and worldwide motorsport calendar. The final round of World Rally Championship or WRC starts on Friday near Llandudno in Wales. The championship might already be wrapped up this year by Sebastien Ogier but there is almost guaranteed action in the mud and difficult conditions that […]

A short post today but another important one to bring to your attention. Junior or entry level roles are rare in Formula 1 but that is not to say that they never come up. You should always be on the look out though and be fully prepared to apply. A glance at the Williams F1 […]

If you have been following my blog for any length of time, or have read my book you will know how critical work placements can be for University students who want to break into the motorsport industry. These 12 months placements really are a golden opportunity for students during their degrees and offer the most […]

As you may have seen this week via my Twitter feed @Work_in_f1, McLaren F1 Team have been advertising for a graduate designer in their Aerodynamics group. We all know that teams do not often advertise for graduates but I think there is sometimes a belief that there are no graduate vacancies at all in F1. […]